19 Mich. 49
Decided July 12, 1869
Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1869-07-12
Tbis was an action brought into the Circuit Court for the County of Oakland by general and special appeal from the judgment of James S. Dewey, Esq., one of the Justices of the Peace for that County. The ground of the special appeal was that the Justice, after issue joined and an adjournment, had granted the motion of the plaintiff and ordered a trial of the cause by a jury.
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Decided 1869-07-12
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1923
7 state decisions
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¶1I agree with the Chief Justice in the result reached by him, and I concur in most of the reasoning he has employed.
¶2I do not deem it necessary, however, to the decision of the case to consider the scope or meaning of the provision in the Justices’ Act quoted by him, and which relates to the general powers of Courts held by Justices of the Peace, and I therefore reserve my opinion upon that subject.,